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guard-of-terra on Oct 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Do you really want to be making this much money wh...

Quite a few professionsnow require you tositall day looking at the screen, but they differ in compensation while sharing health risks. And I don't see many occupations where the risk is much milder.

lutusp on Oct 6, 2012 [–]

> And I don't see many occupations where the risk is much milder.

Yes, I agree completely. To me the problem is that programming is so lucrative and fun that it might make us too sedentary to be healthy.

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